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item is 1,thus the minimal score of all items was 10. From the formula above, the class intervals were:
10 ≤ x 18 : very anxious
34 ≤ x 42: relaxed
18 ≤ x 26 : anxious
42 ≤ x 50 : very relaxed
26 ≤ x 34 : mildly anxious
The indicators of speaking anxiety were basically taken from items selected from FLCAS which then classified into some categories.
D. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The section below present data analysis obtained from the questionnaire.
1. The FLCAS Questionnaire
1.a. The Levels of speaking anxiety among the students FLCAS developed by Horwits et. al. consists of an indicator for every
dominant skills of foreign language acquisition. Those skills are: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In relevance to this study, I had only selected items that
were related to speaking skills. After adapting the FLCAS questionnaire developed by Horwits et. al.
1986 into a shorter version, I divided the items into 2 categories: Unfavorable items and Favorable items. Unfavorable items consisted of items number 1, 2, 3,
4, 6, 7, 8, 9,10. Favorable item consisted of item number 5. Unfavorable items consisted of negative statements with score 1 for Strongly Agree
– 5 for Strongly Disagree while Favorable item consisted of positive statement with score 5 for
Strongly Agree – 1 for Strongly Disagree. The score results from FLCAS
questionnaire then divided into 5 categories as was the original. Those categories
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are: 1 Very anxious, 2 Anxious, 3 Mildly Anxious, 4 Relaxed, 5 Very Relaxed. To find out the interval of each class, I used Interval formula, which was
commonly used to measure the interval class range of psychological phenomena that happened in society:
\Figure 1: Anxiety Levels of students in grade 9
Figure 1 shows that from total of 73 students, 8 students 10 were in the very anxious level. 30 students 41 were in the anxious level. 21 students
32 were in the mildly anxious level. 9 students 13 were in the relaxed level and only 5 students 2 were in very relaxed level. Almost a half from the total
students were in the anxious level, it shows that the majority of the students experienced anxiety, only one fifteenth of the students felt very relaxed.
2. The Factors Associated to FLCAS Questionnaire
There are a lot of factors that affect anxiety in speaking foreign language in classroom as discussed in Literature Review. However, this section will discuss
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